Joseph Pilates Quotes

Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.

Joseph Pilates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: December 9, 1883 - October 9, 1967

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One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

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I think books should have secrets, like people do.

John Updike

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People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

Sondre Lerche

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The Brat Pack is timeless.

Rob Lowe

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I say I'm the strongest in the NFL, but the yoga has helped me to a point where I can't be moved off the line, because I know how to get rooted in the ground and use the energy around me.

Mike Daniels

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Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create a connection with an audience, it brings so much of their knowledge of what genre really is to the table. You have a shortcut to connect with them. I really like that.

Jonathan Levine

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I have five major corporations, and I operate them. How could I be retired?

Donald Sterling

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I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

Cissy Houston

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After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Claire Forlani

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The Musharraf government has declared martial law to settle scores with lawyers and judges. Hundreds of innocent Pakistanis have been rounded up. Human rights activists, including women and senior citizens, have been beaten by police. Judges have been arrested and lawyers battered in their offices and the streets.

Asma Jahangir

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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Peter Gabriel

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I first started doing some somewhat technology-based shows in the '80s. If you wanted to get real technical about it, back in the '70s I used to open up with Utopia with just me on the stage with a four-track tape recorder. So, technically, I've been using the help of various devices pretty much throughout my career.

Todd Rundgren

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